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KIDS & TEENS: SPARK! LAB INVENT IT CHALLENGE

For Kid's and Teens Age 5-21

January 25, 2015
Kids and teens age 5-21 are invited to join the Spark! Lab Invent It Challenge.

The Challenge, now in its fourth year, offers children across the world the opportunity to showcase their creative thinking on a global stage, with the opportunity to receive an official patent filing following a free consultation with a patent lawyer from Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, Camp Invention scholarship, LEGO kit, books from Smithsonian Consumer and Education Products, and profile in Cricket Media's Odyssey Magazine.

Individual students, entire classrooms, schools and other organizations serving children between the ages of 5-21 are encouraged to participate. 

DOWNLOAD THE RULES HERE!

The Spark! Lab Invent It challenge requires students to follow seven key steps in the invention process, including identifying a problem, conducting research, sketching, building a prototype, testing, refining and marketing the product. The process helps to cultivate and reinforce 21st century skills, including the use of digital technologies, and also meets several Common Core, STEM and other learning standards.

Each Entry must identify a real-world problem and demonstrate at least the following four (4) Key Steps of the Invention Process:
  1. Think it: Have a great idea for an invention 
  2. Explore it:  Investigate inventions and ideas of the past 
  3. Sketch it:  Draw pictures and diagrams to figure out how your invention might work 
  4. Sell it:  Market your invention to people who might buy it
 The deadline for submitting inventions to the Spark! Lab Invent It Challenge is March 27, 2015.

For more information and to get started visit http://challenges.epals.com/